OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14219315
AMPUTATED,LOSS OF BLOOD,SCREW CONVEYOR,CLEANING,CLOGGED,FALL,ARM,BRIDGED MATERIAL,HOPPER
Event description
Employee bleeds to death in hopper
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was moving powdered fertilizer to a hopper -- part of a conveyor sys tem to load trucks. The hopper was 92 in. above the floor and was loaded using a front end loader. As the employee was filling the hopper, some of the caked fer tilizer began to clog the screw conveyor at the bottom of the hopper. The employ ee parked the front end loader alongside the hopper and began to break the cakes of fertilizer with a 6 ft long iron bar. Apparently, the employee lost his foot ing and fell into the hopper. His left arm was caught in the running screw conve yor and amputated. Employee #1 was working alone at the time of the accident and bled to death at the bottom of the hopper.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 49 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 22
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 13
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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